Indos

Indos are people of mixed European (mostly Dutch) and Indonesian descent or Europeans with partial East Indian ancestry. The Indos originated in the Dutch East Indies colony as the result of intermarriages between the white colonists and locals, and settlers from Portugal, Britain, France, Belgium, and Germany would also intermarry. After the Indonesian National Revolution of 1945-1949, many Indos felt unwelcome in the new country of Indonesia, and many "repatriated" to the Netherlands (where they had never been before) or emigrated to the United States and Australia. In 2001, there were approximately 1,000,000 Indos in Indonesia, 431,000 in the Netherlands, 100,000 in the USA, and 10,000 in Australia. Most of them spoke Dutch, English, and Indonesian, and their religion was either Christianity or Islam.